Letters to the Editor
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Quote from movie 'Nixon'
I recall a quote from Oliver Stone's movie 'Nixon' :
Nixon shuffles back alone, coming to a stop in front of a larger-than-life, full-length oil portrait of JOHN F. KENNEDY. Nixon studies the portrait, pads closer. Looks up.
NIXON (CONT'D)
When they look at you, they see what they want to be.
(then)
When they look at me, they see what
they are ...
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Clinton did it too!
Ay yi yi. I've seen several posts hear that try to equate ScooterSkate with Clinton's end of term fire sale.
To those who would make that arguement I would ask "How many Americans died needlessly because of WJC's mendacity?"
Bush's lies have kiiled more Americans than Al Qaeda. More Americans than Al Qaeda. I would say that the Executive Branch and its apologists hate America just as much as any terrorist organization and have been far more effective in destroying her.
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Never happen
Sadly, this will never happen.
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Forgot to Mention Somebody
You forgot to mention the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis we have murdered. It is not just 3,600 American soldiers, not to mention 2,000 contractors and 20,000 seriously wounded. We have become the bad guys. Are any of you, like me, horrified at being the bad guys? I don't like wearing the black hat, I don't like being Darth Vader. Yet that is what we have become indeed, by our actions. We have to make this president and vice-president resign. Now.
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criminal precedent
Where do we think this derailed train is headed? After all that has gone before, the Libby reversal is par for the course.
We've let the man-child and his gang break every law of decency, nevermind jurisprudence, and now we wonder why they think they can get away with it? Because they have, and continue to do so, getting stronger, richer, and more arrogant every bloody footstep of the way.
We have a mafia running the country. They don't give a flip if you like 'em. Just keep payin' your dues, and maybe your head won't get bashed in.
America is being buried alive in a quicksand of lies and deceit. We're up to our eyeballs in it by now. Kinda takes your breath away, don't it?
Wars, Katrina, torture, murder, casualties, lives decimated and destroyed, the wounded, the ruined, steady erosion of civil liberties, outright lawlessness, carelessness, recklessness, neglect, fraud, extortion, distortion --
The only silver lining, the one in their pockets.
Where will it end? When will it stop? Will lightning strike, flash floods and hail rain on them, too?
Because they just don't care at all. Never did, never will. Unless we make 'em.
Keith Olbermann has spoken out courageously and honestly, time and again. Where are his colleagues in the media? Where are our representatives? Where are we?
It's up to all of us to relentlessly expose the truth, and push for these criminals to be put to justice -- anyway, anyhow.
They have raped and plundered the country and the world. It is truly beyond belief what they have done in our name.
Impeach the lowlifes now!
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Blowhard BS
“the man who said those 17 words – improbably enough – was the actor John Wayne”
Why would Keith think it improbable for John Wayne to hold such a belief? Does pompous Keith thinks that someone like John Wayne, a Nixon backer, is incapable of any admirable sentiment? That is a classic example of bias. A preconceived notion of what a person thinks, and of how they will act, based on the observer’s philosophy. A bias based on party affiliation, rather than race, ethnicity, or religion, but a bias none the less.
More BS; “And those who did not believe he should have been elected -- indeed those who did not believe he had been elected -- willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of nonpartisanship.”
Could someone introduce me to this fictitious person?
"Sacred oath", ... do we have a separation of church and state problem here?
Even more BS: “And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that vice president, carte blanche to Mr. Libby to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary”
Carte blanche? Any means necessary? In addition to bias, Keith gives us an example of hyperbole. Some might call it lying. . . . Good old Keith wouldn’t lie, in an a rant condemning lying, . . . would he? Joe Wilson did more to defame Joe Wilson, with his changing story, and proven false statements, than anything Scooter Libby did.
The guy you hate, got off, and you’re pissed.
Boo-hoo.
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Hooray
Olbermann! On the mark sir.
All the blowhards still comparing this to what Clinton did are missing so many crucial distinctions, it's not even worth commenting.
Anyone defending this President/administration has left the path of reason, or has an agenda that is being fulfilled by these criminals.
May they rot in a prison of their own making.
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False logic on the hypocrisy argument
It seems like a good logical argument that Hornet Driver makes. If you didn't scream bloody murder when Clinton pardonned a criminal, it's hypocritical to scream it now.
But the argument is indicative of so much of what stands for debate right now. Because this accusation almost demands a different debate. The debate veers off from this instance into a whole world of possibilities. The problem is none of them have substance.
Let me put is this way, in grabbing hold of this argument, we get left with this the following:
a> all pardons must be judged not on current merits, but in historical context of all previous pardons.
b> all criticism of pardons must be judged on previous criticisms of previous pardons.
c> the only voice that could possibly debate this pardon is someone who slammed the pardons of Clinton, Bush I, Reagan... (ID required to prove age, and ability to comment on previous presidential pardons).
Paradoxically, Scooter Libby wouldn't be allowed in this debate. Since he was Marc Rich's lawyer and thus, most likely, didn't protest the pardon of his former client, he wouldn't be allowed to even comment on his own pardon.
I don't know about you all, but I wish debates went back to being substantive.